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Lord David Dundas | |
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 Dundas in Prudence and the Pill (1968) | |
| Born | David Paul Nicholas Dundas 2 June 1945 Oxford, England |
| Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, actor |
| Years active | 1968–present |
Lord David Paul Nicholas Dundas (born 2 June 1945) is an English musician and actor, best known for his chart success in the pop genre during the 1970s as well as his later career in film and television scores.
Dundas was born in Oxford, the second son of Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland, and his wife Penelope Pike. As a younger son of a marquess, he is entitled to the courtesy title 'Lord'. He was educated at Harrow and the Central School of Speech and Drama. While at the Central School, Dundas shared a Camden Town house with actor Vivian MacKerrell and film director Bruce Robinson. The house on Albert Street had been bought by his parents for him to live in, eventually according to Dundas himself "15 people were living there – there were three bedrooms".[ citation needed ] Those years served as the basis for Robinson's unpublished memoir and the film Withnail & I (1987). Dundas co-wrote the score for the film, considered "one of Britain's biggest cult films". [1]
On 17 December 1971, Dundas married Corinna Maeve Wolfe Scott, and they had two children. They divorced in 1995. Dundas then married Taina Bettina Breuckmann on 21 November 1997, and they had one son.[ citation needed ]
His 1976 single "Jeans On" reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, [2] No. 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 in the German Singles Chart, where the song remained 19 weeks in the Top Ten. [3] The song originally appeared as a television advertising jingle for Brutus Jeans [4] (the words used in the jingle – "I pull my Brutus jeans on" – were replaced with "I pull my old blue jeans on" for the single release). The single was later sampled by Fatboy Slim for his track "Sho Nuff" which was also used in an advertisement in 2006 for the SEAT Ibiza. Dundas's follow-up single, "Another Funny Honeymoon" was a medium-sized hit, reaching No. 29 in the UK. [2] Dundas performed the song live on the BBC Television show, Top of the Pops , in 1977. A later single, "Where Were You Today", based on a C&A radio commercial ("Come and C and A" being replaced by the song title) was less successful. Jingles made by Dundas for Capital Radio were played daily on the station in the 1970s: "Grab a little piece of heaven, with Roger Scott from 3 to 7" [5] and "Get a little soft rock, country, blues, with Tony Myatt from 11 to 2".[ citation needed ]
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
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| UK [2] | AUS [6] | CAN [7] | GER [8] | IRE | NZ [9] | US [10] | |||
| 1976 | "Jeans On" | 3 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 3 | — | 17 | |
| 1977 | "Another Funny Honeymoon" | 29 | 14 | — | 6 | — | 38 | — | |
| "Fly Baby Fly" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Stick on Your Lollipop" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1978 | "Guy the Gorilla" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "When I Saw You Today" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1979 | "It Ain't Easy" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||
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